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How to Set Up a Loyalty Program that Works
Looking to keep your customers coming back for more?
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Square launches On-Demand Delivery in Canada
Square has partnered exclusively with DoorDash to offer you food and beverage delivery services — including alcohol in eligible provinces — at launch.
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How to Grow Your Personal Training Business
Here are some tips and tools for standing out across platforms, increasing your reach, and booking new fitness clients.
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The Future of Omnichannel
If you’re looking to keep tabs on consumers’ changing habits, learn what’s next in eCommerce, and see what the future holds for omnichannel retail, this post is for you.
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What is Drop Shipping and How Does it Work?
Drop shipping is a popular inventory method for online businesses. Learn everything about what drop shipping is and how it can work for your business.
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Customer Engagement: Three Steps to a Strong Ecosystem
There are great opportunities from overhauling the way you engage with your customers throughout the entire customer lifecycle. An ecosystem of connected tools and intuitive programs gives you that.
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Marketing Ideas for Beauty Businesses
If you run a business in the beauty industry, you know how important it is to stay in touch with clients and attract new ones. Read on for some email marketing tactics that can be especially effective for beauty businesses that need a marketing makeover.
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5 Email Marketing Best Practices
Targeted email marketing is an extremely effective way to reach customers and drive sales. Here are the top 5 email marketing tips and tricks by Square.
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How Kensington Brewing Co. leaned into aesthetics and customer experience to navigate the challenges of COVID-19
Here we speak to Michael Gurr, President of Kensington Brewing Co., about pivoting during the pandemic, the evolution of craft beer, and being a part of the Kensington Market community.
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How to Become an Online Seller
eCommerce is today’s normal. We’ve put together some tips for you to transition from brick-and-mortar to an online storefront.
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What to Know Before Becoming a Large Seller
It’s important to learn all about how to start selling things online. To make your growing business sustainable, becoming a large seller requires careful and thoughtful planning and precision.
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How to Write a Killer Bar Business Plan
When you open a bar, it’s crucial to set objectives and strategies to achieve them. Here’s how to write a bar business plan that will roadmap your success.
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7 Time Management Skills Practiced by Successful People
Be more productive with these top time management techniques, tried and tested by professionals at the top of their game.
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How to Track Your Transfers and See Where Your Money Is
Your Square Point of Sale (POS) account’s activated. You’ve linked your business’s bank account. You’ve got your first day of sales under your belt — congrats! But where’s your money?
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5 Tips for Business Owners to Manage Their Cash Flow
Whether you’ve just opened your business or you want to learn how to run an existing business as efficiently as possible, here are four tips for handling cash flow problems.
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Retail Dictionary: 101 Important Terms All Retailers Should Know
Our retail dictionary can help you navigate all of the lingo you’re hearing day-to-day and keep you up to date with the latest trends.
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How to Use Healthcare Payment Processing Tools
Allowing your patients multiple ways to pay helps your clinic, its cash flow, and your patients all at once. Easy payment processing improves the patient experience.
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How to Write an Employee Handbook
How do you write an employee handbook and what sort of content should you include? Follow our comprehensive guide for policy recommendations and more.
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Growing Your Business Online vs. In-Store
The shutdowns in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic sent online shopping into overdrive. When customers could no longer access in-store shopping, they turned online.
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Skills Needed for Growing Your Business Online
Take a look at some of the most important skills you’ll need to hone to grow your business online.
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How to Grow Business Online
Learn about eCommerce sales and how you can boost your sales online
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Here Are Need-To-Know Food Truck Costs (and How to Save Money)
How much does a food truck cost? The answer is that it depends, but let’s take a look at some food truck cost factors that determine start-up and operating expenses.
- Guides
The Future of Retail in Canada 2021
In this guide we explore how businesses are embracing emerging technology and changing customer behaviours to meet the challenges of an increasingly competitive retail landscape.
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Break-Even Analysis Guide: How to Calculate BEP and Apply It to Your Business
A break-even analysis can help you determine fixed and variable costs, set prices and plan for your business’s financial future.
- Guides
The Future of Restaurants in Canada 2021
In this guide we draw on expert analysis and insight into how restaurants are pivoting to meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the food service industry’s future.
- Guides
A Comprehensive Guide to Business Loans
For many small business owners, cash flow management problems are a commonly cited source of stress. Loans are one way you can invest in opportunities like expansion or covering your current expenses.
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From the taproom to table-tops, Junction Craft Brewery taps into Square
Learn how Junction Craft Brewery implemented an online store, payments, inventory and scheduling overnight.
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How to Optimize Your Menu for Takeout and Delivery
As social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic encourages more people to stay at home, adapting your food and drinks offerings to accommodate pickup and delivery can attract more customers and help open up a new revenue stream.
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Transforming Your Business — Tips From the Experts
Learn how local businesses are pivoting their approach and transforming their businesses in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Small Businesses with Mighty Hearts
COVID has brought many small business owners across Canada to the brink of closing up shop for good. Community leaders discuss the future of small business in Canada, how owners can adapt, and other tips for fellow entrepreneurs.
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The Power of Local
We partnered with Nextdoor Canada on a webinar series featuring conversations with business owners and industry experts. Hear how they have harnessed power of the neighbourhood to support and grow their businesses.
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5 Ways to Boost E-Commerce Sales
Are you ready for the e-commerce tidal wave?
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Start Accepting Order Ahead Food Orders With Ritual - Now Integrated With Square
Ritual has partnered with Square to provide a great opportunity for your business to reach new customers and allow them to order ahead for contactless pickup of takeaway orders.
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What Is a SKU and How Should You Use It?
A stock keeping unit (SKU) is a unique number assigned by a retailer to items in their inventory. Read more on SKUs and how you can get inventory management for free.
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Square Partners with Digital Main Street
Square joins Digital Main Street to provide tools and resources to all types of small businesses to modernize their operations, helping them to rebuild by creating new ways of doing business.
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How Much Does a POS System Cost?
The right POS should also help you move through transactions faster (which means sales for you and a better experience for your customers), make smarter decisions about your business, and address issues in real time. Here’s how much that will cost you.
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